Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 7, 1909, Page 12

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR Entered at Omaha postoffice as second- class - matter. TERMS OF €§UBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), one yea Daily Bee and Sunday, one year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee (including Sunday), per wekk.lsc . per week . 10c y), per week Sc Bee (with Sunday), per wuk..ulg 1.60 of irregularities in Dally Bee (without Sund: x‘ Evening Bee (without Sun: Evening Bunda; @elivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bulldmg. South Omaha—Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluffs—15 Scott Street, Lincoln—§18 Little Bullding. Chis 1648 Marquette Bullding. New Thirty-third St ashington— CORRESPONDENCE. ‘ork—Rooms 1101-1108 No. 34 West Fourteenth Street, N. W. feath fating to news and odi- Communieations relating to g~ 34 torial matter should be ad: Bes, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order yable to The Bee Publishing Company. 3-cent stam, mall accounts. Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. e 00 [ received In payment of 'ersonal checks, except on The Tax and Corporation Control. When the corporation income tax feature of the tariff law was first proposed, President Taft urged tHat its value would be more from the reg- ulation and supervision exercised by the government on the foundation of the publicity required than from its proceeds as a revenue producer. If any evidence were needed that the presi- dent lald more stress on this side of the proposed tax than on its treasury- filling possibilities, it will be remem- bered that the rate, first tentatively fixed at two per cent, was later re- duced, with his approval, to one per cent. The best informed authorities seem to think even now that the reve- nue producing capabilities of the new tax on corporation net earnings have been greatly underestimated, and that while no one can make accurate or even approximate predictions, the pro- ceeds of this tax will be greatly in ex- cess of what was expected when it was incorporated into the law. Recent developments in connection | with the federal corporation tax indi- STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ¢ B. Teschuck, treasurer of Publishi! Company, being says that the actual number of full an complete Evening ai coples of The Dally, Morning. the month of October, 1900, was as follows: 12,...48,940 13. 4. 15. 16. 17. 18. 1 B HE Returned coples . Net total .. “ Dally average .... 1,81 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of November, (Beal. M. P. WA =N changed as often as requested. The break on cotton may mean that some speculator has gone broke. e——— Shades of Oliver Twist, Cleveland, do give the school boys enough to eat! Mr. Hearst is now even with Mr. Bryan. Each has three defeats to his score. No parent will consider Pennsyl- vania's Whitla kidnaping reward a whit too much. \ ¢ e e e — e 2 His rate of $1.20 a word makes Peary the top-notcher of magazine polé-climbers, anyway. \ I e The Servian bishop should add to his dootrine the nfaxim that you may dream, but you mustn't tell. The opera singer who failed to break her rich aunt's will ought still to be able to cash a few high notes. Close observers may have noticed that the Thanksgiving proclamation crop is nearly ready for harve: In charging for the size of women's hats the express companies are only adding to the sighs of the husbands. Now that the Chautauqua salute has been abolished, how are the advocates of a noliseless Fourth to celebrate the day? i, The Mrs. Lemon of the opera house gala wedding finally awoke to the fact that she had been handed one, all right. Mr. Spreckels’ plan for a national anti-graft soclety may be expected to result in some municipal sugar re- fining. The deadly boller tube seems to need as much attention from the Navy department as the revision of the foot ball rules ————— Mr. Roosevelt may now consider himself entitled to father the standard joke about the report of his death being greatly exaggerated. ' The American who shot himself in & Parisian cafe after hearing the or- chestra may have been only suppress- ing & desire to shoot the musicians. With “Uncle Joe' ball nine down in Danville, will the handbook of parliamentary procedure be substituted for the league rules? ) . If the astronomers comet they would better hurry it along before the next base ball season gets under way. For polite cloaking of short and ugly terms the courts are entitled to our admiration, as witness the judge who, in appointing & conservator for the 70-year-old bride who had just wedded a youth of 21, remarked omly that she licke | “‘ethical insensibility.” Before |; uned ;ln Dl;_;h! non-par- tisan key the democratic World-Herald boasted it was not in the habit of sup- porting republican candidates. The ob- fect of the non-partisan bunco game was to fool republicans into supporting democrats. The republican platform on which the state ticket was presented to Ne- braska voters this year appealed for the support “‘of all good ecitizens who believe in honesty, justice and fidelity and hate hypocrisy, deceit and faith- Bee duly l‘wornd Sunday Bee printed during —;mlnl a base expect young America to take any interest in that cate that the big corporation lawyers, and the great corporation magnate have come to agree with the presi- dent that the amount of the tax is of less consequence, than the far-reaching control it gives federal authorities through the power conferred on them to check up and verify the returns made by the various corporations showing their capitalization, indebted- ness, receipts and expenditures. Sev- eral national organizations incorpo- rated to promote co-operation in cer- tain lines of industry which would have to pay merely a nominal sum as a tax have been advised by their at- torneys that the best thing for them to do is to divest themselves of their corporate character in order to avold making the required returns. A big industrial concern in Chicago llkewise has taken steps to relinquich ite char- ter with the explanation that the stock is all held by the chief owner and he can do business just as well in his own individual capacity without being un- der compulsion to divulge the inside of its financlal operations. The example thus set 1s naturally attracting'general attention, and may be expected to have numerous imitators. All this goes to prove that the pres- ident was eminently correct in his original declaration that the publicity and regulation features of the federal corporation tax law would be the real step In advance toward the assertion of federal authority over menacing corporations. This law will doubtless have to run the gauntlet of the courts for a test of its constitutionmality, but should it be upheld as legitimately within the congressional prerogative, as many eminent lawyers think it will be, it will make the corporation form of doing business stand for something more than it does now on the scale of commerce and. industry. Government by Law. During the campalgn just closed in Nebraska, involving the election of three . judges to sit on the supreme bench, the various reasons urged in be- half of different candidates and the loose discussion of the principles of the law and the function of the courts in- dulged in by those who were inspired by selfish purposes, could not but tend to confuse the public mind as to what constitutes a government of law. The “nonpartisan” argument and the con- tradictive “‘bi-partisan’ argument, and the “substantial justice” plea, coupled with the demand for judges of a sym- pathetic turn of mind, are all based on a misconception of the position ac- corded the judiciary in our distribution of official power between the various co-ordinate departments of govern- ment. While the subject is still fresh, one document brought out by the cam- paign, though without direct bearing on any particular candidacy, should not be permitted to escape attentlon to its sallent features. It is a letter ad- dressed by Francis A. Brogan, presi- dent of the Nebra State Bar asso- clation, to a newspaper at Lincoln, tak- ing issue that the latter's assertion that the demand of the hour is for judges temperamentally inclined to favor so-called reform legislation, irre- ‘-pootlve of constitutional limitations. From this letter we quote in abridge- ment: It cannot be too often repeated that this is to be a government of law, not of men. It 18 not the function of a judge to modify this system of law, and ‘its application to the concrete facts of a case, to suit his own views of what the law ought to be. If it is once admitted that a judge may decide cases according to his own personal view of what you call “substantial jus- tice,” such a judge may become the most arbitrary instrument of oppression, and the that he exercises his oppressive rule in favor of the pumerical majority, would not palitate his wrongdoing. If he may decide a case contrary to law, in faver of an unfortunate who is injured on a rail- road train through his own carelessness, it he may decide for the poor man because he is poor, and against the Tich man be- cause he is rich, then he may decide a cause for one political party, because that is the one which has elected him, or for port from that quarter. As opposed to that theory of the judicial function, I support the other view, that & judge should be the very thing you de- plore—a part of the machinery of the law. It 1 read aright the history of the peoples whose institutions have flowered on this continent, the highest product of their ef- forts has been the system of law whereby the judge shall, as near as human frail- ities will pgrmit, declde each case accord- ing to a general rule of law. That is why Justice and lberty are upon a higher plane in England and America than elsewhere in the world; that is why an Aaron Burr was acquitted In America by the application to his case of settied principles, under the administration of a just judge, and to the lasting glory of our law; while under other systems and among people swayed by tem- lessness.” We are giad to say & ma- [Perement in thejr political action, & Dre- lority of the citisens in Nebraska are of that kind..” P » » fus languished in an unmerfted dungeon, and & Ferrer, for prociaiming the intellec- fusl freedom of the people, was shot to \ the other, because he has drawn his sup- |y, THE death by the judgment of a tribunal before which he was not even allowed to appear That is why, too, our federal ocourts to day condemn to long terms of imprison ment the powerful financier whose mis- deeds have brought distress to many, but Interposo the shield of the constitution be- tween the newspaper men at Indianapolls, and the efforts of an offended government to drag them across the continent for trial. While it should ever be the effort to improve the system and better the proce- dure, yet we must adhers to the funda- mentals. Our courts must express by their decisions the law of the land, not the per- sonal predilections of the judges. This lucid statement is well worth study. Ours is a government of law, and more than that, a government sub- Ject to law. The highest law is the federal constitution before which any conflicting state constitution or Ieder-} or state law must give way. Within the spheres of the respective states the highest law is the state constitution, before which legislature-enacted st ute in conflict must give way. The court that upholds the constitution may have to nullify laws passed in vio- lation of its provisions, but the court which seeks to nul)ify trle constitution in order to uphold specific legislation attacks the bulwarks of our liberties and saps the foundations of our free government. The judges who wilfully nullify the constitution rightfully ex- pose themselves to impeachment. Ours is a government of law—a law which must govern judges and law-makers Just the same as it governs the private individual 5 An Americari Philosopher. The popular mind sees in the death of Dr. Willlam Torrey Harris the pass- ing of a noted educator, and laments him as such, but here was a far greater mind than the general public realizes. Profound thinkers the world over had recognized the depth of his scholar- ship. This was not limited to the pedagogy whose principles he had de- fined for America and whose theories he had put into practice during his term of office as commissioner of edu- cation, nor to the philology which had made him competent to administer the functions of editor-in-chief of the most comprehensive and authoritative American dictionary. Beyond his emi- nent services as an educator and an editor, his work in the field of phil- osophy stands pre-eminent. America has had few great philoso- phers, since the day of the earliest, Jonathan Edwards. While one in- stantly recalls Europe’s famous names in this realm of thought, he who is asked to name America’s chief philos- opher would stop ordinarily at Emer- son., Yet it was Emerson’s work which Harrls continued, and, In a way, per- fected. The Concord School of Phil- osophy held no more capable advocate than Harris, and he went beyond the Concord llmitations and Interpreted for all Americans seriously bent on knowledge and the pursuit of truth the minds of the great masters of the older world. As an expositor of German philosophical thought, he was one of the clearest; he gave to America, both through his translations and his expo- eitions, the full logic of the greai Hegel. His birth followed Hegel's death, but in the works of Harris the works of Hegel grew, and in the final estimate of Harris he will be acclaimed as the one man in America who was chief instrument in popularizing the German idealism, as far as philosophy can be popularized. Contemporaneous with George Stu- art Fullerton and William James, he yet outranked them both. Fullerton rendered valuable service with his crit- ical studies, but Harris surpassed him in extending the range of vision. James was a brilllant advocate of keen, orig- inal views, but Harris gave a system- atic presentation from a consistent point of view, His books will live as among . the deepest and clearest wells of philosophic truth. The Personal Equation in Wrecks. Examination of the government's latest reports on railroad accidents in the United States shows that the old theory that the personal equation is responsible in nesriy every case still holds good. Some years ago bad rails were blamed, and it was found that the human element had neglected the precautions against defects in speeding the manufacture of the rails. Public opinion and losses by the railroads re- stored the steel product to its former grade. The wrecks that seem to the layman the most blameworthy are collisions, but when run down, the list of causes of this class of wrecks turns in every case on the fatal personal equation. One block signalman of years of ex- perience became confused during his first day on duty with a new road, and failed to display a stop signal after receiving a dispatch so to do. A dis- patcher’s reless writing of two fig- ures and the careless misreading by a trainman was the combination in an- other instance. Forgetfulness of which the operator can give no expla- nation caused him to signal a clear track after receiving a definite order stop a certain train. A conductor misread the figures on a blurred time- tabl A dispatcher with an absolutely clear record for sixteen years mis- ated the station at which a traln was to take a siding. Another dispatcher sent an inconsistent message which two other operators copted and passed on to tralnmen without either noticing the palpable discrepancy. In every one of these cases the Initial error might have been detected If the man committing it had used the established safeguards provided to check such blunders, or if the men to whom the errors were transmitted had had their minds alert on their duties. The evident remedy is the use of automatle devices, yet the human ele- ment may vitiate the mechanism de- OMAHA \ SUNDAY signed to prevent accident. Careless winding of insulation caused a short circuit which threw the block signal out of service, and an indifferent re- pairman swung a wire against an elec- tric interlocking device so that a motor was energized to throw a switch, di- verting a fast train to a track on which another was approachmg. With the utmost care, and the installation of the most ingenious appliances, it would seem that the railroad is finally and constantly at the mercy of the human unit. . Our Silent Millionaites. The prominence given constantly to a few of our very rich men, gives rise to the general impression that Ameri- can multi-millionaires may be counted off on the fingers by any child old enough to read, until suddenly the un- familiar name of some Croesus appears to remind us of the .existence of a great number of silent millionaires who are using their vast funds for the benefit of humanity in their own quiet way. A week ago, the name of John 8. Kennedy would not have at- tracted auemloi anywhere, and the fact of his death stirred no breakfast- table talk except the cbmment that such an old man should fall a victim to whooping cough. When his will discloses that he had bequeathed $26,- 000,000 to charity, religion and educa- tion, the American instinct of commer- cial rating is aroused, and it is sud- denly realized that it is possible to live even in New York City the life of a good citizen and public benefactor without proclaiming frfom the house- tops the possession of fabulous wealth. America has a large number of such men as Mr. Kennedy, wno have accum- ulated great fortunes and are adminis- tering them in an unostentatious but serviceable way. Of late several such men have been deliberately dragged forth into the limelight in illustration of the very fact that the country does not fully appreciate the worth of its silent millionaires, but they have inva- riably come forth from their seclusion reluctantly, and none of the nolse made about them has been of their doing or their desire. It is always in good taste, evensin a millionaire, to be as inconspicuous as possible. The worth of a modest mind is well {llus- trated by the anecdote of the strug- gling young couple who suddenly struck it rich in the west. ‘‘Now that we have all this money,” said the hus- band, ‘“‘what shall we do?"” And his wife answered, ‘‘Jack, let's be quiet.” The case of Mr. Kennedy demonstrates that the silent undercurrents of the human race are just as forceful as the roaring cataracts \ . : What’s in a Name? Shall the upper classmen of an east- ern university be condemned because they flunked in the examination de- signed to show their famillarity with public names? Not to know the three full names of the president, for in- stance, does not necessarily argue crass ignorance of or indifference to either the personality or the official importance of the chief executive. The voter sees the name Willlam Howard Taft once in the papers when nomi- nated, and once again when he is in- augurated and never again does he see anything but “Mr. Taft,” or “Pres- ident Taft,” or probably some familiar nickname. The same was true of Theo- dore Roosevelt, and chances are that the average man asked what was Mr. Roosevelt’s middle name would imme- diately hazard an Initial or admit that he did not know. It is but a short time since the vice president was In- ducted into office, yet how many, off hand, can repeat his name? Or who can write out, much less pronounce, the euphonious letters that combine to indicate the identity of our secretary of state? e 2 No, the lack of familiarity with personal nomenclature does not put the Brown boys any more to the blush than it does the average citizen who s successfully supporting his family and establishing his small meed of fame. And after all, what is there in knowing men’s full names and load- ing up the mind with the contents of a congressional’ directory, The one word Roosevelt, or the one word Taft, is sufficient to conjure up a mental picture of the man and his personality. If a man has sunk his identity into that of a public institution, it is but natural that che citizen will recognize only the office, not the occupant; but where a man stands out apart from his great office, as in the cases of Roosevelt or Taft, the baptismal words do not count in establishing the meas- ure of the man Gaynor and the Yellows. It will be curious to see how far Judge Gaynor proceeds when he as- sumes the office of mayor of New York toward fulfilling his pre-election pledge |to go after the yellow press of Manhat- tan and eradicate what he termed “‘as- sassination by slander and libel,” which, since' the arrival of a “certain individual,” had become in his judg- ment “a system and a trade.” This is a self-imposed task of the mayor-elect. No one had asked him for such a pledge; the people were too busy keeping pace with the new names being coined daily in the campaign of personalities. But since Mr. Gaynor deliberately announced his intention of “teaching these libellers a lasting lesson through the criminal law,” both the yellows whom he thus defles and the reputable journals who disown the yellows, will watch for his next step in this direction. Mr. Gaynor will have a reform dis- triect attorney, and if any of the old offenders continue to put themselves within the range of prosecution he may have a chance to make at least an effort. But he will find his foe as cun- BEE: NOVEMBER (y 1909. ning and as resourceful as he did Boss McKane, so that he may as well be pre- [pared for a bitter battle. The feminine “mystic” who is eru- sading In New York for a four-hour work day for men and women alike, and whose argument is that the sexes do not see enough of each other, over- looks the historic cases of wrecked marital life resulting from husband and wife being too constantly in each other's company. It is even possible that the Carlyles might have been happy if the husband had had a job that kept him away from home through the day instead of fussing about the house all the time. The “mystic” plea for equal suffrage and a four-hour work day might also put to proof again the old saying about mischief for idle hands. ) The local party favoring immediate independence of the Philippines has gained control of the Filipino assem- bly, but that {s what would naturally follow in a country where only three per cent of the people turn out to vote. The agitators are the only ones who concern themselves in politics In the islands. Most of the people over there are content to let the American gov- ernment administer their affairs. Collfer’s Weekly prints a column of “Brickbats and Boquets'’ more or less similar to that occasionally indulged in as a luxury by The Bee, and from recent samples it looks to us as if Col- ler's ratio of brickbats were at least equal to our Those who are curious to know whether a woman will ever be presi- dent of the United States should re- member that the constitution requires each candidate to admit to an age of 35, Secretary Wilson might easily turn those abandoned farms of the south into a national object lesson by putting the 11,000 men of his department to work on them. ) —_— No Assistance Call ‘Washington Pest. The farmers ought to nearly ready for another uplift, with all the money they have made this year by attending to their own business. For, One by On Yy Go. Philadelphia Record. Stlll another departure from President Roosevelt's “policies” s made in putting the new extension of the White House df- rectly over the ground where the Roosevelt cabinet used to play tennis. Equalising the Welght. Chicago Record-Herald. There is talk of sending Mr. Fairbanks as ambassador to China; but in case were represented at Peking by a former vice president, ‘wouldn't Japan insist on having us send a former president to Toklo? Can W pare 'Em?t ‘Washington Herald. A college professor advocates the aboll- tion of the Ten Commandments. Why not abolish a certain variety of college pro- fessors instead? It would be much easler, and decidedly more in keeping with the eternal fitness of things. ————e PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. With Andy Carnegle, Tom Lipton, “Poy Pay” O'Connor and Dick Crocker on this side of the pond life must be mighty lone- some on the other side. The head of the Chicago weather bureau says there Is no such thing as Indian summer. Residence in Chicago begets pes- simism. The fight in Chicago is as good as won, Janitors are joining the Tenants' Prot tive league organized to repeal the race sulcide rule of landlords. Farmer Patten Is demonstrating in a profitable way that raising cotton in New York and wheat in Chicago beats the usual methods of cultivation hands down. Now that the tumult and the shouting of officeseekers have subsided, it is possi- ble to read these signs of the times: “Gat yéur Thanksgiving turkey ready;” “Do your Christmas shopping early.” Fifty million dollars & year is the sum needed to put Pacific coast ports in order for Panama canal busin. Paoific coast- ers strike out the word “should” and put in “must” in the request to Unele Sam, SERMONS BOILED DOWN, Looking down never lifts up. Every act is some kind of a prayer, Small talk often makes big troubie, Habit serves the good as readily as the bad. Most people slp up on thelr own smooth- ness. The greatest sorrows are the ones we never reach. Big plans for tomorrow are the stuff that sloth fattens on. Many & man would be like Job if it dla not cost so much. We would all live in a fool's paradise but for lite's bitter blows. Many a preacher smothers the truth in his attempt to protect It. Most men like to let thelr light shine when they get a new car. Good advice is seldom taken save as it is given in practical doses. No man gets any higher a character than he wishes all others to be. Some think they are saints because thelr nelghbors would be relieved to have them €0 to glory.—Chicago Tribune HEAVEN, Wilbur D. Nesbit “What do you think that heaven may be?" The hearer answered with a smfle: “A Dlace where folks like you and mo May hear sweet music all the while, Where roses bloom and birds wil And sliver streams plash in the With naught but joy in everything— Of these, I know, s heaven made.” “What do you think that heaven may be?” The mother answered: ““'Tis a land | Where all mine own mgy be with me d And where, too, I may und The longings of ‘the little hes And find my happines In soothing with a moth; The weary little heart “What do you think that heaven may be?" The old man answered with a sigh er green and high, weariness nor strife comfort calm and blest we may not h A folding of the han What do you think that heaven may be? * Why, It ‘would be of little worth Were it not given for u S bring its radiant glow smiles y th I'm going to sell these 30 Diamond Rings at Only $16 T've just returned from he east—I put in w whole month there, choosing Ohristmas jewelry, novelties and the like, \ Bought quite the prettiest line of wares T've shown in years—but went in strong Atamonds. Fact is, I purchased $30,000 worth from ome im. porter at a olip. And I bought 'em RIGHT, too—paid the ime porter CASK to GET 'em right, Thess diamond rings at §16 for instanos—IT guarantes they oannot be purchased for leas than $30 right NOW, st ANY other store in Omaha. They're attractive stones, t00; appealingly white, agreeably perfect; out to bring out EVERY bit of the stone's splendor. Most oaptivating st $16, surely. You'll have use for a ring of this sort will you not? If not for yourself, well then to serve as some one's Christmas gift. But mind you, $16 tags on $30 diamond rings will make 'em sell VERY quickly. Mandelberg 1522 Farnam Street — through the histories and I never DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES., & plotire O & queen WhO Tooked employed a first-class milliner.’ Madge (proudly)—Did you see that hand- | Record-Herald. some man I just danced with? - Kato—Yes; he has o jealous wife, Who| “Gwendolen, I suppose some worthless will allow him to dance only with the plain- | young dude Is going to take you to the est girl In the room.—Boston Transcript. | theater this evening?’ oXes, mamms, Iim golng with o brother, George tonight.”"—Chlcago 1bune. ' “Why that faraway look in his eyes?" “Since our engagement he has thought of nothing but marriage!” “I wouldn’t marry & man who looked on the dark side of things in that fashion.'— Houston Post. “I fear I am not worthy of you." “Never mind about that," responded the young woman with the square jaw. “Be. tween mother and myself 1 imagine we can effect the necessary Improvements.”—Loulis« ville Courfer-Journal. ‘““Tell me—ah—are you a—er—ah—a good, careful, excellent cook and a—er—a very superior laundress?" “'Ah-h-h! Wot d'ye taake me fer—twins?'* ~Harper's Weekly. Minister—And the child’s name, madam? Mother (firmly)—~Name him Frederick | Robert Cook Peary Smitn. I'm not going | to take any chances.—Puck. Friend—My dear girl, you have brought all this wretchedness on yourself. What made you want to marry such an unat- traotive, disreputable fellow as this spend- thrift jord? Titled Wife (sobbing)—I dldn't want to marry him, but papa got him so_cheap, I | coudn’t resist such a bargain.—Baltimore American, “Dad, what s monial’ burea 'O, any bureau that has five drawers full of women's fixings and one man's tie in it."—Houston Post. of a bureau is a matri- “The motto of our party is ‘Turn the rascals out!' " “Well, I gues your party has turned out more rascals than any other."—Cleveland Leader, ~ “You wife's new hat makes her look like a queen,” said the man who tries to be complimentary. “Don’t let her hear y: say that' an- swered Mr, Bliggin: T have looked Don’t Be a Slave: To Your Job! If you are a clerk in some insurance office you have doubtless qdnerved how many field men, possessing no greater amount of brains than you, earn ten times your income. The reason 18 not far to seek—they had courage to break away from a “sure (?) thing" paying $12 or so a week, to secure a permanent competency working for themselves, q who gets ahead in the world. Whether a man should stay in one place year after year depends altogether on the place. If it offers you an opportunity to broader, stay. If it does not, quit. Don't go through life in & narrow rut because you haven't the coure age to break away. Your excuse is that you do not want to give up a certainty for an uncertainty, but when you are past middle age tho “‘certainty” may prove a myth. It is not always the man who sticks to one job for a lifetime Most of the big men in this country today threw up positions where they had a certainty because they felt themselves ca- pable of greater things. Don’t become the slave of some poor little job. You don't have to. We can establish you at once in a profit- able business with the certainty of an increasing income as the years go by. The Equitable Life Assurance Society OF THE UNITED STATES PAUL MORTON, President N. D. NEELY, Manager Merchants National Bank Building, Omaha, Nebraska. 196 Users in Nebraska Alone! This is something of a record, for the RKranich & Bach Piano, Isn’t It? 105 homes in Omaha alone, have the sweet toned Kranich & Bach pianos: 22 in Council Bluffs; 10 in Kearney; 8 in Lincoln, and 51 are scattered out over the state. We've sold 'em all and doubt very much if ANY purchaser in the total of 196 would WILLINGLY give up his **Kranich & Bach." Kranich & Bach are a firm of critical builders—they make EVERY part of their piano under ONE roof;: un- der one watchful management, and a perfect manufac~ turing harmony like this is SURE to produce something excellent in the way of a piano. Name of those 196 buyers given on application. 1513 DOUGLAS STREET, OMAHA, NEB.